David Weinfeld

Occupy Democrats post: "BREAKING: Kash Patel was just busted LYING TO CONGRESS in order to protect pedophiles! Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have successfully been able to view a slew of unredacted Epstein files, and they discovered that Trump’s disgraced and wildly incompetent FBI Director Kash Patel has been lying to Congess, under oath, in order to protect the other rich and powerful men who played major roles in the Epstein sex-trafficking ring. Thanks to pressure from Massie and Khanna, the DOJ reluctantly unredacted an FBI report naming Jewish billionaire Les Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret and notorious Epstein associate, as one of the co-conspirators in the sex-trafficking ring. “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight,” said Khanna’s partner-in-justice, Rep. Thomas Massie, on Twitter on February 10th. The two spent two hours on February 9th examining unredacted Epstein files and were shocked at what they saw. “Most of the unredacted files were redacted—70 to 80 percent. Massie and I saw that there were six men who were co‑conspirators and were being protected. Those names need to be made public. " "There’s no excuse for releasing survivors’ names while protecting these six men. There are probably more. In just two hours, we saw that these six men were being protected.” Kash Patel’s FBI is actively engaged in a cover-up on behalf of serial pedophiles and must be fired immediately — and held accountable for his own role in protecting pedophiles."

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

my argument for why AOC should run in 2028 is (a) she would be a good president (b) Mamdani, Analililia Mejia, abolish ICE with majority support, if not now, when?

Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.

i like the Ferengi but find DS9 unwatchably bad so may have to revisit the selection TNG episodes where they appear

Are the Moriarty episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” helpful to understanding artificial intelligence? I’m not sure but those were good episodes and maybe deserve a rewatch.

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Never Again, Once Again | Peter E. Gordon A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

Brilliant and moving essay about historical analogies by Peter Gordon: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.

The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025. n.pr/3MhYNoP

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @yaelmiz.bsky.social on the band-aid solution of Western sanctions on extremist settlers, when the settlement enterprise is in fact a decades-long Israeli state project:
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Well well well how the turn tables

Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.

This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage

For @nytimes I wrote about the globalization of Canadian rage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage

Great piece by @stephenmarche.bsky.social in The NY Times: "We're all Canadians now."

We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans

As usual, Bernie is right.

strangely enormous numbers of people think that criticizing the democratic party on this website somehow resulted in or will result in destroying the party's electoral chances. bizarre!!!

Netanyahu faces a reckoning in Gaza as Trump's triumph exposes Israel's postwar failure The U.S. Wants Aid to Gaza Expanded, but Netanyahu Fears Definitive Proof That His Far-right-backed Plan for Gaza Has Collapsed. In His Statement After Meeting Trump Envoy Witkoff, the PM Signaled an ...

The problem is bigger than Bibi, but Bibi remains among the biggest problems. This has been true since long before October 7. There cannot be a two-state solution with Bibi in office. I hate Hamas but Bibi is the bigger obstacle to a 2-s-s, which remains the only realistic path to peace.

Ex-Rutgers president endured racist threats before he quit. He ‘didn’t sign up for this.’ He became Rutgers' first Black president. Then the threats started coming in.

Jonathan Holloway is a superb scholar, a mentor, and a mensch. I don’t care if one disagrees with his views on the Rutgers union,
Israel/Palestine, or anything else. This is absolutely awful.

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

I think that's part of the article's point about the right having agency. They don't just react to wokeness. They've been building this for decades. I think wokeness can encourage Trumpism in some people but I think the problem is much older and deeper than that.

I really liked this article. I don’t think it negates criticisms of “the left” but I think it’s worthwhile to consider where “centrists” direct the majority of their criticism. Emphasis matters. Quotation marks because I think it’s less about policy views and more about evaluating relative threats.

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

LOL

WNBA superstar Paige Bueckers

New Rules For CBS News under Bari Weiss:

"Palestinians Bad!"

"Pedophiles and Their Enablers? Eh, Not So Much."

New CBS contributor Peter Attia is all up in the Epstein Files. Weiss's wife, Nellie Bowles, also had very friendly email exchanges with Epstein after he was a convicted pedophile.

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024.

If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

The Epstein story is still absurd and bad and indicative of a lot of things wrong even if you were to remove every single accusation or evidence thereof of child abuse. The fact that he came out of nowhere and seemingly every elite on the planet was connected to him is bad.

like I was personally trashed by Corey Robin on a number of occasions for calling Trump a fascist, as late as like, 2023. prominent, well-regarded leftists from this very site argued to me that Trump was barely more dangerous than Obama and Clinton, much less Bush

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.